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REMBRANDT VAN RHYN.
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of Bute, and one of the former description belongs to the
Duke of Sutherland.
This artist was born at Amsterdam, in 1621, and died
in 1674.
Solomon de Koningh. So little reliance can be placed
on the early writers of the lives of the painters, that the
inquiring amateur must, in most instances, be satisfied by a
comparison of the works of some artists in order to derive an
opinion of their probable connexion; and under the guidance
of this rule, the author inserts the above-named painter in the
present list. It may be true, as stated by his biographer,
that he received his first lessons in the art from David Colyns,
and subsequently studied under Nicholas Moijaert, but there
is too close an affinity in many of his best pictures to those
of Rembrandt’s, to leave a doubt on the mind of his having
also studied in his school. He painted history, fancy subjects,
and portraiture of a small size, and in a neat and careful
manner, adopted the same principles, and attempted the same
system of colour, and style of dresses, as his supposed
master. In his execution, his touch is blunt, but at the
same time sparkling and free; the gradations are sometimes
exceedingly true, particularly the receding parts of a room,
and a window, which he frequently introduced. Two admirable
examples of this description, representing an old man weighing
gold, and an old woman counting money, are in the possession
of a gentleman at Leyden.
He was born at Amsterdam, in 1609. The period of his
decease is not correctly known, but is supposed to have
occurred in 1674.
De Koningh. As this excellent landscape painter never
signed his baptismal name on his pictures, and biographers
appear to have known little or nothing about him, the writer
is unable to determine whether it was Philip, David, or Jacob,
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of Bute, and one of the former description belongs to the
Duke of Sutherland.
This artist was born at Amsterdam, in 1621, and died
in 1674.
Solomon de Koningh. So little reliance can be placed
on the early writers of the lives of the painters, that the
inquiring amateur must, in most instances, be satisfied by a
comparison of the works of some artists in order to derive an
opinion of their probable connexion; and under the guidance
of this rule, the author inserts the above-named painter in the
present list. It may be true, as stated by his biographer,
that he received his first lessons in the art from David Colyns,
and subsequently studied under Nicholas Moijaert, but there
is too close an affinity in many of his best pictures to those
of Rembrandt’s, to leave a doubt on the mind of his having
also studied in his school. He painted history, fancy subjects,
and portraiture of a small size, and in a neat and careful
manner, adopted the same principles, and attempted the same
system of colour, and style of dresses, as his supposed
master. In his execution, his touch is blunt, but at the
same time sparkling and free; the gradations are sometimes
exceedingly true, particularly the receding parts of a room,
and a window, which he frequently introduced. Two admirable
examples of this description, representing an old man weighing
gold, and an old woman counting money, are in the possession
of a gentleman at Leyden.
He was born at Amsterdam, in 1609. The period of his
decease is not correctly known, but is supposed to have
occurred in 1674.
De Koningh. As this excellent landscape painter never
signed his baptismal name on his pictures, and biographers
appear to have known little or nothing about him, the writer
is unable to determine whether it was Philip, David, or Jacob,